Prims
| Prims | ||
 Course of the prims |
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| Data | ||
| Water code | EN : 2646 | |
| location | Germany | |
| River system | Rhine | |
| Drain over | Saar → Moselle → Rhine → North Sea | |
| source | near Malborn in the western Hunsrück 49 ° 41 ′ 50 ″ N , 7 ° 1 ′ 32 ″ E |
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| Source height | approx. 636 m above sea level NHN Source of the Great Prims | |
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Saar bei Dillingen Coordinates: 49 ° 20 '25 " N , 6 ° 42' 52" E 49 ° 20 '25 " N , 6 ° 42' 52" E |
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| Mouth height | approx. 177 m above sea level NHN | |
| Height difference | approx. 459 m | |
| Bottom slope | approx. 7.1 ‰ | |
| length | 64.8 km | |
| Catchment area | 737 km² | |
| Discharge at the gauge Nalbach A Eo : 712 km² Location: 7.51 km above the mouth |
NNQ (1977) MNQ 1960/2015 MQ 1960/2015 Mq 1960/2015 MHQ 1960/2015 HHQ (1998) |
555 l / s 1.98 m³ / s 10.5 m³ / s 14.7 l / (s km²) 136 m³ / s 259 m³ / s |
| Left tributaries | Allbach , Theel | |
 Primsunterlauf near Dillingen |
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 Primstalsperre |
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The Prims is a right tributary of the Saar in Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland .
Surname
The pastor and local historian Philipp Schmitt from Dillingen mentions the names Brims, Brems and Prims, which were common around 1850. Prince was pronounced the flowing water above Hüttersdorf . A Latin document of Charlemagne from 802 mentions the name Premantia. The river name Premantia or Bhrimantia (from "wallen" / "hum") is likely to come from the Celtic era. In 1484 the river was called Brims, 1520 Primpß, 1606 Brembs, 1633 Brimbs. The prims have been called brême in French since 1600. The circumflex is reminiscent of a s that actually exists, but is unusual in French pronunciation. In an official description from 1849, the river is described as floatable and its length is given as 13.5 hours. At that time there were bridges in Krettnich, Bettingen and Dillingen.
The name Prims is derived from the Celtic word brendo (old Irish burn), which means fast, wild and stormy.
geography
course
The Prims rises in Malborn in the Hunsrück , a municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate as Small and (Large) Prims. Between the ridges of Ruppelstein ( 755 m above sea level ) and "Steinkopf" ( 683 m above sea level ), the springs are located at an altitude of 645 m above sea level. NHN (Kleine Prims) or 636 m above sea level NHN (large prims). Passing the municipality of Damflos , it enters the Saarland and is dammed up near Nonnweiler in the Saarland to form the Primstalsperre .
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In its further course, after crossing under the Primstal Bridge , the Prims meets the towns of Kastel and Primstal , flows through the town of Wadern , where the Wadrill- Bach flows, or its districts Krettnich and Lockweiler , then past Dagstuhl , Bardenbach and through Büschfeld , Schmelz , Nalbach , Saarwellingen and Dillingen . At Dillingen the Prims flows into the Saar after 91 kilometers on the Dillinger Hütte site . The height of the terrain at the mouth is 177 m above sea level. NHN . The highest point in the catchment area is the Sandkopf . It is 757 m above sea level. NHN on the district of Neuhütten between the places Züsch and Börfink .
Catchment area
The total size of the catchment area is 734 km².
In terms of land use , the catchment area can be divided into two parts. In the northern part of the forest predominates. In the southern part you will find the cultural landscape typical of the predominantly rural Central Saarland - a mixture of intensively agriculturally used areas, forests, orchards and pastures. The proportion of forest in the catchment area is 47% (national average 29.7%). The proportion of coniferous forest is 19%, that of the deciduous forest is accordingly 28%. Grassland is typically used in the floodplain and is represented with 17%. Around 10% of the area is taken up by permanent cultivation (orchards). About 12% is taken up by arable land. In total, around 39% of the area is used for agriculture. A total of 13% is settlement area (national average: 12.2%).
Larger settlements are Dillingen / Saar , Losheim am See and Weiskirchen . The settlement focus is in the southern area of the catchment area.
Tributaries
The following rivers and streams flow into the Priems in sequence:
- Little prims ( right )
- Damflöschen ( left )
- Allbach ( Altbach ) ( left ; 8.409 km; 17.76 km² EZG)
- Forstelbach ( right )
- Münzbach ( left )
- Kasteler Steinbach ( left )
- Imsbach ( left )
- Wiesbach ( left )
- Löster ( right ; 26.561 km, of which 15.803 in the SL; 62.7 km² EZG, of which 32.91 in the SL)
- Wadrill ( right ; 27.134 km, thereof 13.994 in the SL; 72.9 km² EZG, thereof 31.37 in the SL)
- Wahnbach ( right ; 17.192 km, thereof 15.383 in the SL; 17.861 km² EZG, thereof 17.05 in the SL)
- Losheimer Bach ( right ; 20.66 km; 110.9 km² EZG, of which 102.81 in the SL)
- Sollbach ( left )
- Linbach ( left )
- Michelbacher Mühlenbach ( right )
- Hausbach ( right )
- Soldbach ( left )
- Goldbach ( left )
- Birrbach ( left )
- Blaubach ( left )
- Todenbach ( left )
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- Hüttersdorfer Hombach ( right )
- Hüttersdorfer Mühlenbach ( right )
- Theel ( left ; 25.356 km; 218.62 km² EZG)
- Piesbacher Aschbach ( right )
- Herrnbach ( left )
- Piesbach ( right )
- Etzelbach ( right )
- Rondelbach ( right )
Hydrology
The relief is clearly reflected in the precipitation distribution . While up to 1227 mm of precipitation is measured in the higher areas of the Hunsrück , the precipitation in the lower area has the lowest values at 844 mm. This increases the total amount of precipitation from southwest to northeast. The mean precipitation is 1027 mm. There is sufficient rainfall in all seasons.
The seasonal distribution of precipitation shows a maximum in winter (November, December) and a minimum in April.
In the catchment area of the Prims there are 16 water gauges that permanently register the water levels of the water bodies.
| level | Waters | Catchment area [km²] |
HHQ [m³ / s] | MQ [m³ / s] |
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| Dagstuhl | Solver | 61.80 | 31.40 | 1,260 |
| Eppelborn | Ill | 120.00 | 71.40 | 1,650 |
| Lebach | Theel | 207.00 | 141.00 | 2.940 |
| Losheim 1 | Losheimer Bach | 12.50 | 8.28 | 0.207 |
| Losheim 3 | Losheimer Bach | 15.00 | 3.63 | 0.182 |
| Michelbach | Prims | 441.00 | 196.00 | 7.680 |
| Nalbach | Prims | 712.00 | 259.00 | 10.80 |
| Niederlosheim | Hölzbach | 13.60 | 8.90 | 0.294 |
| Nonnweiler 1 | Prims | 18.50 | 9.40 | 0.345 |
| Nonnweiler 2 | Altbach | 16.20 | 18.00 | 0.336 |
| Nonnweiler 4 | Prims | 48.40 | 27.00 | 1.030 |
| Nunkirchen | Losheimer Bach | 104.00 | 68.00 | 1.660 |
| Rappweiler | Hölzbach | 8.95 | 5.48 | 0.193 |
| Slate tunnel | Wadrill | 44.20 | 36.40 | 0.907 |
| Weiskirchen | Holzbach | 4.20 | - | - |
| Waders | Wadrill | 71.30 | 60.40 | 1,310 |
*) Level in the catchment area of the Prims with main values. Status: December 2005.
geology
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In the northern part of the catchment area on the upper reaches of the Löster , Wadrill and Prims, the upper Siegen levels of the Devonian are among the most pronounced geological formations. Among other things, Hunsrück slate can also be found here , which form wide clearance zones between the quartzite bars. The Gedinne and lower Siegen level form the parent rock in the northern upper reaches of the Löster, Wadrill and Prims and are mainly composed of quartzites and slates. The Rotliegend is widespread in the catchment area - the Oberrotliegend in the northern area and the Unterrotliegend in the Prims-Blies hill country, i.e. in the eastern part. The catchment areas of Ill and Wiesbach are excluded from this . They belong to the Saarbrücker Sattel ( carbon ).
The occurrence of volcanic rocks is limited to intermediate volcanic rocks and intrusions . Occasionally, these occur in the northeast sub-catchment area, in the Prims-Nahe Mulde and especially in the central sub-catchment area near Limbach . The acidic rhyolites that occur in the catchment area are negligible in terms of area. Red sandstone and shell limestone only exist in small proportions on the edge of the Merziger shell limestone plate. The Keuper was completely removed.
nature and environment
environmental Protection
Lively Prims is a project to improve the water quality of the river. The project serves as a model for the implementation of the European Water Framework Directive . The first project phase consists of an inventory, which has already been completed, the second consists of the definition and implementation of suitable measures. The participation of the public (interested citizens, representatives of fisheries , agriculture , water supply companies , sewage disposal, nature conservation and affected communities) is planned. The model project is being developed and implemented by the Ministry of the Environment, the Chair of Physical Geography at Saarland University and the BUND Saar. The experience gained in this way is the basis for the development of guidelines for the nationwide implementation of the Water Framework Directive.
biosphere
flora
Along its banks has up to 2.5 m tall balsam spread, originally from India comes.
fauna
In some places the prims, u. a. Wadern, Nalbach, Diefflen, live in the Primsauen u. a. Beaver , kingfisher and dipper .
Fish species that are common in the Prims are: minnow , bullhead (Mühlkoppe), brown trout , loach , gudgeon , barbel , hazel , chub (Aitel)
Namesake
The soccer field in Körprich is named after the river and, located directly on the Primsufer, serves as the main venue for the SV Borussia Körprich soccer club under the name Primstalstadion . The multi-purpose hall in Schmelz is also in the immediate vicinity of the Primsufer and therefore bears the name Primshalle.
literature
- Ulrich Honecker: Evaluation of the near-natural retention potential in floodplain systems. A contribution to integrated flood prevention using the example of the Prims catchment area . Ed .: Saarland University, specialization in geography (= Saarbrücker Geographischearbeiten . Volume 49 ). Saarbrücken 2005, ISBN 3-924525-49-8 .
- Thomas Kreiter: Decentralized and near-natural retention measures as a contribution to flood protection in mesoscale catchment areas of the low mountain range . University of Trier, Department of Geography / Geosciences, Trier 2007, p. 37 (dissertation).
- Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise, éditions errance, Paris 2003
Web links
- Prims , Saar-Hunsrück Nature Park
- Literature on the prims in the Saarland bibliography
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c GeoExplorer of the Rhineland-Palatinate Water Management Authority ( information )
- ↑ a b c Thomas Kreiter: Decentralized and near-natural retention measures as a contribution to flood protection in mesoscale catchment areas of the low mountain range . University of Trier, Department of Geography / Geosciences, Trier 2007, p. 37 ( online [PDF; accessed on July 26, 2016] dissertation).
- ↑ a b Geoportal Saarland map viewer for the Saarland ( information )
- ↑ Prims to the end of the Nonnweiler dam: 12.271 km; Prims 3 (to Losheimer Bach): 24.729 km; Prims 2 (to Theel): 14.581 km; Prims 1: 13.198 km.
- ↑ Redefinition of the statutory flood limits on the Saar - Part I: Results of the water level calculations and basics of the river Saar. (PDF; 14.5 MB) Federal Institute for Hydrology, August 27, 1993, p. 12 , accessed on July 27, 2016 (report BfG-1433).
- ↑ Nalbach / Prims gauge. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: Thematic portal water. Ministry for the Environment and Consumer Protection (Saarland), 2015, archived from the original on July 27, 2016 ; Retrieved July 27, 2016 (yearbook page). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Bernhard Kirsch: Article "Why is the Saar called" Saar "or who was there before the Celts?", In: Our home, bulletin of the Saarlouis district for culture and landscape, 41st year, issue No. 2, 2016, p. 45–56, here p. 49.
- ↑ Philipp Schmitt: The Saarlouis district and its immediate surroundings under the Romans and Celts. Lintz, 1830, p. 152 ( full text in Google Book Search).
- ↑ Georg Baersch: Description of the government district of Trier: Edited from official sources ... Lintz, 1849, p. 5 ( full text in Google Book Search).
- ↑ The partial catchment area of the Löster in RP had to be partially measured; the EZG to the national border is 30.478 km², of which, however, small parts are already in the SL and others in the RP are not yet included.
- ↑ The partial catchment area of the Wadrill in RP had to be partially measured; the EZG up to and including the mouth of the Engbach is 43.936 km², of which, however, small parts are already in the SL.
- ↑ In the RP service the inland sub-catchment areas for Lannenbach (264664; 11.5643 km; 0.842 km² plus 10.71 in the SL; according to the RP service a total of 11.121 km and 12.449 km²), Waldhölzbach (264666; 12.269 km; 2.246 km² plus 1.45 in the SL), and Holzbach (264668; 14.143 km; 1.971 km² plus 26.1 in the SL) are indicated immediately, but those of 26466 and 2646612 (source flows of the Losheimer Bach) had to be measured by polygon (approx. 3.0 km²).
- ↑ Theel 1: 8.025 km, Theel 2: 17.331 km
- ↑ Ulrich Honecker, 2005
- ↑ Level in Saarland (PDF; 180 kB)
- ^ Website Vibrant Prims
- ↑ Germany's nature parks in the heart of Europe between the Moselle and Rhine. (No longer available online.) Saar-Hunsrück Nature Park, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved July 26, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Fish colonization of the Prims. State Office for Environment and Occupational Safety, accessed on July 26, 2016 .
